Course handbook

Description

In this course students examine key topics and perspectives in the social sciences, relevant to social science careers. Theory and contemporary research on social class and inequality, social capital, gender, the state and social policy, bureaucracy and work, and the welfare state are covered.

Content

The 'capitalist state'; the welfare state, globalisation and economic rationalism.

Governmentality and normalisation.

Social capital; the theory of declining social capital; the engineering of social capital.

Gender; the materialist-feminist model; gender in work and domestic life today; gender inequality and social services.

Assumed knowledge

40 units of study at 1000 level.

Assessment items

Tutorial / Laboratory Exercises: Tutorial exercises

Essay: Essay

In Term Test: Exam

Contact hours

Callaghan and Ourimbah

Seminar

Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term

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